knightly the Sneptaur

I have a hard time blaming the voters for anything when they live in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet. Ultimately the voters opinions don’t matter when they can be shaped by billions of dollars in ads and media time.

He’s annoying, but he’s right.

If they didn’t want to lose because of protest votes they should have thrown a bone to the protesters before the election.

The DNC chose this, everything else is just an attempt to deflect blame.

Dunno who’s downvoting you, you’re right

American voters have zero agency. We only exist to pay taxes and legitimize the state, which is not obligated to provide us with actual options to vote for.

Are you not aware that draft dodging was a crime?

Drones can’t search houses for contraband or arrest dissidents.

If Trump starts blowing up whole neighborhoods in search of insurgents he’s just going to manufacture more insurgents.

Tell me if there will be any Republicans left to vote after Trump goes full Blair Mountain on the 60% right-wing Teamsters that refuse to cross a picket line.

There’s a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can’t be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.

The Orange Hitler is on track to take power and you wanna put up a flag to support America’s Chancellor Paul von Hindenburg. XD

I’m trans and I voted for Harris, asshole.

People like you are why the Democrats thought they could offer nothing and still win.

Stop trying to enforce a Republican-style party line and try building a winning coalition instead.

I have much respect for drag and don’t disagree with that point in general, but in this particular case I must protest.

Democracy is a process for legitimizing a government. The voters cannot fail at voting, they can only be failed by elected parties that don’t faithfully represent their interests once in power. The responsibility is entirely incumbent on the parties themselves, as they get to pick how they manipulate public sentiment into supporting them and the voters have no agency in the decisions those parties make.

60% less than the last presidential election. The one Biden won.

Stop blaming third parties for the Democrats’ failure to build a coalition within its own party.

Sure, blame the voters for the lack of choice they were given. That seems very productive and totally not just an excuse so you don’t have to admit that the Democrats are responsible for enabling genocide.

Harris should have lied, then. There’s no punishment for promising the world and failing to deliver.

Literally all of the third party voters could have voted a straight Democrat ticket and it wouldn’t have affected a single swing state. Third-party voting was down by about 60% versus 2020.

Yep just like you did lol.

Pardon?

When did I ever imply that?

Sounds like someone is looking for someone to blame so that they don’t have to reckon with the Democrats’ failure to appeal to the voters.

If you want to blame me, that’s your problem. I ended up voting for Harris anyway.

If you trusted the Democrats to save them, that’s your fault.